Dan
Maguire Challenges David BrooksFor
starters, he says that the godly can draw from "moral creeds
that have evolved over the centuries," but that poor adrift
secularists "have to build their own moral philosophies"
startng from scratch. Nonsense!

Christianity without an omnipotent god, without a divine savior,
without an afterlife? In this bold and hopeful book, theologian
Daniel C. Maguire writes that traditional, supernatural aspects
of Christianity can be comforting, but are increasingly questionable.
A century of scholarly research has not been supportive of the
dogmatic triad of personal god, incarnate savior, and life after
death. Demonstrating that these beliefs have questionable roots
in historical traditions, Maguire argues for a return to that
brilliant and revolutionary moral epic of the Hebrew and Christian
Bible. Rescued from god, Christianity can offer a realistic global
ethic to heal a planet sinking under the effects of our ungrateful
mismanagement.

Once
again Dan Maguires new book is at the cutting edge. Passionate,
yet crystal clear, Christianity without God distills the essential
Christian message from the mythological and theological accretions
that have distorted it. Its a message we need today, more
than ever.  David R. Loy, author of Awareness Bound
and Unbound: Buddhist Essays

For
many of us, Maguires book will be a kind of homecoming.
Someone, at last, has had the courage to write what so many of
us have been thinking.  John C. Raines, author of
The Justice Men Owe Women: Positive Resources from World Religions

Dan
Maguire's MemoirThis
thoroughly funny memoir proves that lifes tragedies and challenges
should never defeat our sense of humor. Whether it is in a happy
breakfast with Geraldine Ferraro, an unfriendly lunch with Clarence
Thomas, or a grim tete-a-tete with Pope Benedict XVI, Maguire finds
the fun in life and shares it with us in these hilarious pages.
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from AmazonMary
Hunt's book review

WHAT
HARM TO BE A WOMAN? This
DVD visits individuals and organizations around the world that
have found a religious response to violence against women and
are helping women to reunderstand their faiths and reshape their
own lives.How
to order

The
Religious Consultationon Population
Reproductive Health
and Ethics

Vatican
Council on Women would be funny were not so insulting"I
encourage others to trust their intuitions about such dubious
endeavors and to think about women when they sing the praises
of Pope Francis. Women make up slightly more than half of the
Catholic population, and many more than half of its active members.
Only by ignoring women can Francis fans herald his achievements."
Mary E. Hunt

Israel
is the child of Zionism. Define Zionism and you have defined the
moral underpinnings of Israel. There have been tortured back and
forth debates about whether Zionism is racist: of course it is.
At its core, Zionism is an imperial form of ethnic cleansing. Its
moral heart is empire; its strategy is ethnic cleansing, the extirpation
of one ethnic group to make room for Jews or those who tenuously
claim to be Jews. Zionism is an ongoing process. Its inner logic
allows no surcease until the ethnic outcasts are cast out.

A
New Buddhist PathDavid
R. Loy addresses head-on the most pressing issues of
Buddhist philosophy in our time. What is the meaning
of enlightenment--is it an escape from the world, or
is it a form of psychological healing? How can one reconcile
modern scientific theory with ancient religious teachings?
What is our role in the universe?